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Belle Vue Park Primary School

Self Organised Learning Environments 
S.O.L.E.

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Our school is a world leader in this teaching strategy. We have been undertaking classroom based action research on S.O.L.E. since 2010 collaborating with professor Sugata Mitra and his colleagues from the University of Newcastle in the U.K. to develop a mainstream teaching strategy that can be successfully implemented in any school.

High Performing School Systems

High performing school systems support research undertaken by teachers to drive innovation and school and system improvement.
 
“Practitioner-led research allows teachers to investigate issues and explore solutions to the teaching problems they face in their own school setting.
High performing systems recognise that it has a much higher impact on teacher professional learning than other development opportunities and invest in it accordingly.
Teachers are encouraged to reflect upon and try out new ideas to better support student learning and document their findings in research articles for education journals.
This school-level flexibility and teacher collaboration drives innovation in teaching and learning that can then be translated into schools across the system.”

S.O.L.E. can be used at the start of an investigation, in a series or sequence of lessons or as a one off lesson. It can be used by a teacher who wants students to explore a new concept.  The S.O.L.E. philosophy is about nurturing student curiosity by developing provocations and questions which drive the learning process. S.O.L.E. nurtures student conversation and respectful listening. In many ways S.O.L.E. develops a sense of positive connection between the teacher and the students.
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Our S.O.L.E. philosophy is about providing students with greater choice, input, control and agency in their learning. It is about empowering students to make more choices. It is about the gradual release of responsibility. It requires positive teacher role models, positive teacher mindsets and above all trust. 


In 2018 the S.O.L.E. Australia website was launched. It highlights how students can "fly" with their learning and contains some of our research and also how students feel when they use S.O.L.E. to learn for themselves.

Check it out at the following address:
                                                                     www.soleaustralia.com
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                                                                    Paul Kenna@SOLEAust

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